Word: thunderings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some one had left a switch open. The train leaped up a siding and buried its snorting nose in a freight train. The flier's engineer was killed, his mates injured painfully. Back in the sleeper, the motherly woman awoke, thought she had heard a thunder clap, dropped off again. She was fatigued after her previous day's campaigning for renomination by the Democrats. When she heard what had happened, she proceeded to her home townlet of Temple right nearby, telephoned the executive mansion at Austin to say she was all right, and, when the sun shone once...
Near Kansas City, Misaji Kawahara, truck gardener, tethered his horse to a tree as a storm approached, sought shelter for himself indoors. Lightning stabbed across the sky. Thunder dinned madness into the frightened horse. Rearing, plunging, it drew the tether rope ever tighter, choked to death as the halter contracted like a hangman's noose...
...Thunder last week shook the abode of the Sultan of Sulu at Jolo, Philippine Islands. The great Moro chieftain has no children begotten of his loins, but for years he has reared three adopted daughters, the children of his brothers, and the three little princesses? Tarhata, Emme and Dayang-Dayang?have dwelt in the security of his harem. In the excess of his affection the Sultan actually had Tarhata spend five years at the University of Illinois, and she returned home with bobbed hair...
...giant elm tree, estimated to be over 200 years old, which stood on the Oxford Street side of the Agassiz Museum, crashed to the ground early yesterday morning in the midst of a violent thunder shower. It is believed that the weight of the falling water accompanied by the sharp gust of wind occassioned the downfail of the venerable elm. Yesterday's windfall along with the destruction, of the Washington elm in the same manner last year, marks the passing of the two most remarkable trees in New England...
...hours and 21 minutes a creature soared silently, with motionless wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident...